Real Christian Identity

I cringe when I hear people exclaim, "Well, I'm just a sinner saved by grace." I can never let it go anymore. I am compelled to speak up. That statement is devilishly WRONG. It's declaring your B.C. (Before Christ) identity. You WERE a sinner but by the grace of God and the finish work of Christ on the cross you're NOW a saint! Your identity, when you say, "I am..." is not what the world says, or what you feel, it's who God says you are. Whenever the Apostle Paul addressed his audience, he repeatedly said "To the saints in Corinth... To the saints in Ephesus....To the saints that are in Rome." He never said to the sinning servants! Or to the sinners saved by grace. He addressed them by who they had become and were, not by their past identity before Christ. You were a sinner BUT NOW you are a saint living by faith! His grace empowers you to live as a saint through faith.

Romans 6:6-8,11 knowing this, that our old self WAS crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died IS freed from sin. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,...11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus!